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[Letter to] Dear Brother [manuscript]

by: Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873; Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient

Publication date: 1847

Topics: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873, Whipple, George, 1805-1876, American Missionary Association, National era (Washington, D.C.), Antislavery movements, Abolitionists, Missions

Publisher: New York

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Item Size: 28.0M

Holograph, signed

Title devised by cataloger

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Lewis Tappan talks about Phelpśs planned return from Haiti, and the payment made for his article. He then discusses matters related to the mission in Jamaica and the trouble he is having with Charles Steward Renshaw. He also discusses the new paper in Washington, and the debate in Congress favorable to abolitionism. He says Mr. Whipple is doing well as Editor and Corresponding Secretary of the American Missionary Association